““It may, in fact, be impossible to talk about any aspect of the universe objectively, because the universe is ultimately defined by different perspectives on...
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Dog & dinner.
Tears are just tears
The Zen master Tokusan had a wife whom he deeply loved. When she died, he was found by his disciples weeping and wailing loudly. One...
There’s a reason why people who go travelling to find themselves never do. Because there’s no one to find. Or even anyone to do the...
This is fun. The Threshold And The Mask. A fictional dialogue between Alan Watts, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Robert Saltzman written by ChatGPT-4.o.
““Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”” — Werner Heisenberg
Just sit
Just sit. And listen. And watch. Shit just happens doesn’t it?! All those thoughts and images and memories and plans all just appear from… where? ...
If you don’t know what to do next just wait and see what you do next.
With no proper rain for weeks now, the brook is just about managing a trickle.A very different story to the winter floods…
My greatest regret? Taking life too seriously.
““What we are looking for is what is looking.”” — Francis of Assisi
AI/ LLM’s reveal how integral and intertwined language is with the world, how we are partly made of language. It demonstrates the illusion of duality...
““The surest sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness.”” — Michel de Montaigne
Good morning.
It’s all just shtick.
The problems caused by thoughts are not solved by more thinking.
Today, just doing the next things that need to be done…
Reading Robert Saltzman’s book Understanding Claude, which explores whether AI may or may not be capable of self awareness, is making me question what I...
Good morning.
I sense the potential threat we feel from AI is a reflection of how we feel about ourselves. We see too much of us staring...